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Mission Safeer-Thirty Seven Days to Freedom

The documentary “Mission Safeer-Thirty Seven Days to Freedom” is the a true story of cargo ship Motor Vessel Safeer. (M. V. Safeer)

To its misfortune, Safeer docked in Kuwait and was unloading its cargo of rice, when Saddam Hussein, the then president of Iraq, declared war on Kuwait.

Though Safeer was registered in Panama, its owners and 26 crew members, were Indians. One of the owners was Capt Viraf R Kekobad.

Saddam declared, that all Indians were free to leave Kuwait,

as India had good relations with Iraq that time.

It was a mammoth task for the Indian government to get over 176,000 Indian expatriates out of a country, that had just been attacked.

Some left the country by crossing borders, some were airlifted by Air India planes and 722 Indians by ship,the only ship that was allowed to leave Kuwait, the M. V Safeer.

This 45 minute documentary is the story of the refugees,the crew, the owners and the Indian government who made this journey to freedom- possible.

It is also the story of heroism and teamwork.

Do watch this documentary on YouTube:

THE DOCUMENTARY A true story of heroism by the ship’s crew who faced tremendous odds in face of adversity and eventually managed to sail out of war torn region of Kuwait, with 722 Indians expatriates which included 265 women …